Gillian Flynn Quotes

People always were , they always wanted to know, what kind of women gets slaughtered by her own son?

I jammed a floppy blue teddy bear under my head, then felt guilty and returned him to the foot of the bed. One should have allegiance to one's childhood things.

Do you understand this is serious?I understand you think it's serious.

Don’t screw up, you are Amazing Amy. Our only one. There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child—you grow up knowing you aren’t allowed to disappoint, you’re not even allowed t...

She'd used the treasure hunt to take me on a tour of all my infidelities.

I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment – that just anyone could like you.

Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.

You'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy

Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it.

Suppose it’s not a compromise if only one of you considers

It’s the rule of all potentially prickly interviews: Don’t go on the offense until you have to, first see if they’ll hang themselves all on their own.

Worse, I convinced myself our tragedy was entirely her making. I spent years working myself into the very thing I swore she was: a righteous ball of hate.

I noticed Stucks was wearing—maybe ironically, possibly not—a T-shirt that read Save Gas, Fart in a Jar.

Uma criança criada com veneno considera dor um consolo.

Marriage is compromise and hard work,and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter.

If you own a bar on your own, you’re a player; if you own it with your beloved twin sister, you’re— Irish. Go on.

Love makes you want to be a better man - right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.

The day of Amma’s arrest, the day it finally, completely unraveled, Curry and Eileen parked themselves on my couch, like concerned salt and pepper shakers.

A time when newly graduated college kids could come to New York and get paid to write. We had no clue that we were embarking on careers that would vanish within a decade.